Undertale
Witness The Influence
Then Everyone Else dies too
Frisk, even controlled by the Unseen Influence, has an aghast look on their face.
Both Gasters look on in surprise, Sans looks on in denial. The Worldsoul beats once, then goes silent.
A knife buried deep in their chest, they fall to their knees and begin to cough.
However...
"A-Asriel...?" Chara lets out. Asriel looks up to Chara behind him.
"Hah... hey... Chara..." He says, dust beginning to fall from his frame. Frisk backs away. Is it in fear? Shock? It's unknown.
"Asriel...? Asriel... A-ASRIEL! ASRIEL!" Chara yells out, the gravity of the situation finally hitting them!
"HOW?! WHY?!"
"I... followed Frisk... saw him fight you... saw you both jump... into the Worldsoul... thought things were going well... but... Frisk drew his knife again... I had to act... no time to think..." He says, coughing up dust as his legs begin to fade into nothing. Chara falls to her knees and hugs Asriel.
"NO! Asriel... I... I won't let you die! Not after we only finally reunited!"
"Chara..."
"Asriel...?" She asks, with tears in her eyes.
"Please... forgive them..."
"ASRIEL! THAT'S NOT FRISK!"
"I... know... please... forgive... them..." Asriel says, closing his eyes, his dust spreading across the Worldsoul. Asriel turns to dust in her hands. Her shirt turns gray, her tears fall and become trapped in Asriel's ashes. She falls to her hands.
"Asriel..." Chara growls. She looks up. Not at Frisk, not at the gash in the world, but at something else.
"I... DIDN'T... DIE...! MY DESTINY... IS NOT SET IN STONE!" Chara yells, standing up and drawing WORLDSOUL.
"Kid, wait." Sans lets out walking aside Chara.
"Think about what Asriel said. His last wish." Sans says empathetically. Chara looks down at him, WORLDSOUL trembling in her hand. Frisk merely stands there, still aghast and silent.
"Chara..." Chara lets out, catching the ears of Frisk.
"Whether you came here to kill everyone... whether you came here to have a happy ending... like you said... I no longer care. Asriel... Asriel loved you in ways I don't understand. Even to his dying breath, your traitorous dagger piercing his body... he felt nothing but kindness towards you. I have to ask... why? Why are you doing this?"
*You say nothing.
Chara gnashes her teeth and her eyes fill with tears and fury!
"WHY?! WHY MUST YOU DESTROY EVERYTHING YOU TOUCH?! WHY CAN'T YOU JUST LEAVE US ALONE?!"
*Chara: Chosen of WORLDSOUL
*Atk X *Def X
*An aspect of revenge and Determination, having defied fate once more, seeks to set things straight with the blood of the guilty.
Chara lunges at Frisk, who instinctively dodges and counters!
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Chara's body is blasted in half by the force of the attack, but with face still full of rage, it comes back together! The red knives she once drew for defense now skewer Frisk every second, dealing hundreds of damage, quickly reducing him to -1000 HP! With his cheating still activated, there's nothing she can do but attack again and again!
She slashes with WORLDSOUL, causing parts of Frisk's screen to explode with static and glass cracks, soon the Mercy Button falls to nothing, and the Item Button begins to chip! Frisk readies to attack again, but a Gasterblaster rises from below him and blasts the knife out of his hand! Chara looks back to see the Broken Gaster supporting her.
"It's time... that this timeline... finally be purged..." Gaster says eerily, but Chara accepts his help. The other Gaster and Sans rush to her side as well, Sans' eye glowing blue and launching Bones at Frisk as the other Gaster draws his saber and performs a series of stabs against him!
Before long, with Frisk's health in the negative millions, Chara begins to notice something. A small electrical chain connecting Frisk to the Worldsoul! Chara jumps forward and attempts to slash at it, but even with the world defying powers of WORLDSOUL it does little more than bounce off!
"Kid?" Sans lets out.
"You guys... keep Frisk contained! I have an idea!" She says, continuously striking at this electrical current, to no avail. Frisk retakes his knife and goes on the offensive! He slashes as Sans only for him to dodge with a wink, one of Gasters Blasters cutting Frisk off and blasting him to the other side of the Worldsoul!
Chara runs to the Center of the Worldsoul and stabs her sword down. To her amazement, it raises a console for her to issue commands!
"What are these...?"
CURRENT TORIEL MEMORY: 12%
CURRENT PAPYRUS MEMORY: 1%
CURRENT UNDYNE MEMORY: 2%
CURRENT METTATON MEMORY: N/A
CURRENT ALPHYS MEMORY: N/A
CURRENT ASGORE MEMORY: 9%
CURRENT ASRIEL MEMORY: N/A
CURRENT SANS MEMORY: 15%
CURRENT CHARA MEMORY: 100%
RESET ALL TO FULL? Y/N
Without even thinking, Chara makes a balled fist and slams down on the Y button, causing the Worldsoul to shine a brilliant unseen rainbow color!
Frisk continues to attack the skeletons, Asriel's Dust dances in the wind of the attack! Frisk attempts to attack the tall Gaster, but he counters with his own little sword and reduces the damage to zero and summons an array of Void Blasters as the broken Gaster summons Gaster Blasters! They all unleash at once, blowing Frisk away again!
Sans merely stands in the corner, as if his mind has been opened up into something greater, looking at Frisk and Chara and the fight, Worldsoul, everything. It all begins to click. He grins widely.
As the Worldsoul continues to resonate, a sound no one expected to hear thunders downward and blasts Frisk's knife away! A giant spear hits the ground with a small child riding it!
"NGAHHH! CHARA! I REMEMBER EVERYTHING, I DON'T KNOW HOW, BUT I'M HERE TO HELP!" Undyne in her kid form yells out, the Worldsoul granting her Blessings!
*Undyne the Angelic
*Atk 100 *Def 100
*Still in her young body, the power of the Worldsoul fills this noble monsters with JUSTICE!
She launches a thunder spear at Frisk which pins him to the ground as Gaster Blasters continue to demolish his health into the negative billions! Frisk, body still in perfect condition, slowly begins to rise even under the constant attack of all of them! However, his body quickly becomes skewered by an Orange Rapier! Everyone looks around, unsure where it came from, as Papyrus explodes out of the shadows!
He doesn't say a word, and against his normal carefree and pacifist nature, his eye sockets are burning with orange flame and he's scowling.
*Praetorian Papyrus
*Atk 100 *Def 500
*Defender of all he holds dear, the Worldsoul fills this monster with the power to withstand attacks seemingly impossible to survive!
Frisk's body warps with the darkness of the Unseen Influence and he breaks free of all of the bonds holding him, slashing wildly at Papyrus, who stands his ground!
"PAPS!"
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Time and again, Papyrus is attacked by the slashes from this demon, but he stands firm, defending and parrying with attacks of his own. At half health, he speaks up.
"Brother... it has been far too long."
"Papyrus...?"
"It is strange, it took coming to this world to remember who we were. We are not Sans and Papyrus, nor are we Roman... we are something greater. We are the heart of this universe! We will stand by Chara, and free Frisk from this... abomination!" He yells out with a burning anguish! The young but divine auraed Undyne stands beside him.
"With pleasure." She says, rocketing at Frisk and pushing him away from Papyrus! Sans' eyes go black and his smile goes flat. He begins to chuckle.
"Sorry, but this half of Roman was blessed with a fake human heart. I can't transform like you guys..."
"That's fine, Sans. We will hold him off! If we fail, you have to defend Chara!" Undyne yells out, being smacked away by Frisk! She lands on her feet and goes RIGHT back on the attack, slashing him against the walls of the abyss as the Worldsoul continues to shine a rainbow pattern!
Chara continues to affect parts of Worldsoul, noticing something else.
CURRENT FRISK MEMORY: 0%
"Damn it! HOW?! HOW CAN I RAISE YOU?! EVERYONE ELSE IS AT 100!" Chara yells, hitting the console. She takes WORLDSOUL out and runs over to the various lines of code strewn across the Worldsoul, trying to find something for Frisk!
With a demonic howl, Frisk pushes away Papyrus and Undyne and barrels down on Frisk! The two Gasters launch everything they have at him, but it barely slows him down! Sans gets in the way, but without garnering Frisk's attention, all he can do is dodge!
"DAMN IT! I NEED MORE POWER!" Sans yells out! He closes his eyes and raises his hands to stop Frisk!
"NO, SANS!" Papyrus yells out, knowing that Sans cannot possibly stop Frisk!
But to everyone's amazement, Frisk crashes into, and is halted by Sans! Sans, with his eyes glowing blue, holds Frisk off with a glorious blue attack! Frisk keeps trying to move, but with sweat across his face, Sans uses all of his power to shove Frisk aside like he used to do back in his timeline! But Frisk is such a big demonic shapeless monsters that the Blue is hardly affecting him!
"I... NEED... MORE... POWER...!" Sans groans, quickly growing tired, Frisk starting to break out, regardless of everyone attempting to hold Frisk back, his eyes burning red from the black flame surrounding his now demonic body, looking at nothing but Chara, who looks back with nothing but anger in her own eyes. Even facing down such a dauntless demon, she feels nothing but disgust for them!
"NGH...! GUYS... I... CAN'T... HOLD ON!" Sans says, Frisk starting to break through the blue attack, roaring and howling like a ravening beast, trying to rush forward and kill Chara so this can finally end!
"HOLD ON!" A voice from above lets out! Two monsters land behind Sans and use their magic attacks to hold Frisk in place with monster flame!
*Toriel the Triumphant
*Atk 150 *Def 150
*Emboldened with the determination of her family, Toriel seeks to prevent harm from coming to anyone else she loves!
*Asgore the Eternal
*Atk 125 *Def 900
*Reaching a form once thought unreachable, the most powerful monster of the Underground displays DETERMINATION levels unseen of in monsters!
Toriel whips up a flame wall, but Frisk quickly tears through that as well! Asgore rushes in front, his golden Worldsoul blessed armor shining as his giant monster hands clash with Frisk's demonic body! The Worldsoul around them begins to vibrate and shudder!
Frisk chomps down with his demonic fangs, but Asgore's armor is so thick that it does nothing! Asgore breaks his push with a sharp punch to Frisk's face, shattering the black glass surrounding it and causing the flame to be spat across the floor of the Worldsoul! Frisk gets back up but a combined attack from all of Chara's friends pin him to the ground as Chara continues to search for something...
"There... THERE!"
CHARANAME_X_STATUS: OK
Chara draws WORLDSOUL and slashes away half of that code, leaving an Error in the status! This causes the Demon to howl in pain, but cause no discernable damage! It grows larger as a storm of fire rages around it, blowing Undyne, Sans, and the Gasters away, leaving Papyrus, Asgore, and Toriel! All three of them use a mixture of their strength and magic to stop Frisk as much as they can!
"GUYS! I HAVE A WAY TO STOP THIS! BUT YOU HAVE TO PACIFY FRISK FOR A FEW SECONDS! GIVE IT EVERYTHING YOU GOT!" She yells out, drawing WORLDSOUL as the monsters who were blown away rally behind her and nod. The Gasters, Sans, and Undyne all charge their magical attacks at once and funnel it into WORLDSOUL.
Frisk begins attacking Toriel, Papyrus, and Asgore wildly, dealing billions of damage at once, sending them to lower and lower health! Before long, Papyrus and Toriel are smacked away, leaving only Asgore to hold Frisk in place, his giant corrupted maw leaking black liquid, trying desperately to get free and kill Chara! Toriel and Papyrus begin to charge their magic into Worldsoul as well, and finally it reaches full power!
"DAD!" Chara yells out! Asgore looks back to see that she shoots a giant ray of light at him! He catches it in his hand, and it begins to empower his body! He roars with righteous fury, quelling the demon storm around him and shoving the demon to the ground!
"NOW CHARA!" Asgore yells out, being supported by the monsters who are now able to get close! Chara jumps up as high as she can and cleaves down at the small electrical current that connects Frisk to the Worldsoul!
"HAAAAAAAAA!"
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Chara blasts the electrical current in half, causing Frisk to howl out as loud as he can, the Worldsoul starting to rumble! Explosions start going off and everyone suddenly realizes that staying here is a bad idea. Sans and the Gasters open up a small portal for them to return to New Home!
Explosions continue to go off and shake the world and Sans yells out:
"CHARA! COME ON!"
"No."
"NO?!"
"I WON'T LEAVE FRISK, GO ON WITHOUT ME!" Chara yells out with finality. Sans looks back at the other monsters who nod. He sighs. They all run through the portal as explosions continue to go off. Chara picks up Frisk's body in her hands. His eyes are closed. His HP is 0/20.
"Hah... hahah... I'm really stupid... huh?" She says to him as the Worldsoul begins to become catastrophically unstable, cracking and shooting glass upwards amidst the explosions, but Chara doesn't care. She hugs Frisk's body.
"At least... in the end... I got to see you again..."
A HUGE explosion goes off which causes even the monsters who escaped to New Home to fall off their feet and onto their backs! The portal Sans opened up shattering into a million pieces. He looks over with a cold sweat.
"K-Kid...?"
Everyone looks around, seemingly okay. A few of them are battered and bruised, but still alive. But no one is smiling or cheering. Everyone is looking around.
"Where's Chara?" Gaster lets out.
"Where's Frisk...?" Undyne asks.
"Are... they..." Toriel says, horrified.
"And... Asriel...?" Asgore asks. Sans looks over and sighs, shaking his head. Asgore shuts his eyes.
"I see..."
Chara moans, starting to wake up. She opens her eyes to see Frisk standing in front of her, looking out at the Abyss. They are riding on top of... something. But she doesn't know what. Her body is riddled with cuts and bruises. Maybe they were from the battle, maybe they were from the explosions... she's just happy to be alive, but she's too weak to even speak.
Frisk very slowly turns his face back. His eyes are open like the few times they met in the underground, all that time ago. His face breaks into a huge smile upon seeing her awake. Seeing Frisk... finally free... finally everything starts making sense... she had finally defied fate once more.
Undertale
Witness The Influence
Chara and Frisk
Frisk walks over to Chara and helps her sit up. It hurts.
"How are you feeling?" He asks. She takes a deep breath, and tries to speak.
"M-Me...? What... about... y-you?"
"I'm okay... thanks to you. The Unseen Influence is gone, finally." The platform they are on continues to move. Past the abyss, it appears that they have found their way into some kind of cavern, and are snaking their way up to the Underground.
"Where... are we?"
"You... probably wouldn't believe me if I told you." Frisk says, looking over at something. Chara turns her head to see a small Temmie.
"HOI!" It blurts out. Chara cocks her head.
"Temm... ie? But... I don't understand."
"Neither did I, at first... but do you recall the painting in Temmie Village?" Frisk asks, being cut off by Temmie.
"Yaya! Temmie has RICH histories now! We make painting of us riding on HUGE dragons!"
"History...? I remember a painting... but it had a huge drag-" She tries to say, looking up.
It was so big at first that she didn't even notice... but they're riding on a gigantic, long, snaky dragon.
"How the f-"
"Beats me. When I regained consciousness, I saw that Temmie was here with this dragon. They apparently saved us from the Worldsoul's destabilization." Frisk and Chara look over at Temmie as it vibrates intensely.
"We're at VILLAGE!" Temmie says as the roof caves in and the dragon slithers into Tem Village. All the Temmies start bouncing on the dragon, who looks rather uncaring. Instead it gently helps Frisk and Chara to the ground. Frisk looks up.
"What are you?" He asks, not honestly expecting a response.
"I... am a servant of this world. Go now, young human. Your destiny is vast..." It says in a deep, booming voice, the Serpent now crawling back into the hole from whence it came, the rocks magically forming back together. Frisk helps Chara to her feet and begins to walk through Waterfall. The monsters seeing them gasping and allowing them safe passage.
It's just like before, when they fell down with Asriel. But... with a tear in Chara's eye, Asriel is dead.
"Asriel..." She blubbers out, her face sad and broken. Frisk looks over and frowns as well. They continue to walk through Waterfall. A crowd of monsters beginning to crowd around them and some run ahead, trying to get message to New Home.
It's as if the prodigal son had returned, the monsters who recognize Frisk now realize that he's something different entirely. Carrying Chara along in his arms, he is nothing but a Paragon of Goodness. They continue to walk, soon arriving at Hotland. Frisk's legs get tired and he almost collapses, but nearby monsters help him and Chara up. They look up to see it's the Bunny and Dragon, the two monsters who became the Royal Guards later. They smile and help them to the elevator.
They don't exchange many words, but Frisk nevertheless says thank you as they leave the top of the elevator to enter the Core. There, they meet someone else. A broken, hunched skeleton.
"Ah... Frisk... Chara... you have returned." Gaster says.
"Yes... in no small part thanks to you and everyone else." Frisk lets out.
"Then, I suppose... for now... my job is done." Gaster smiles and closes his eyes.
"Where will you go now?" Frisk asks.
"I will go where I am needed. This is but one of many possible realities... and one of few I found it necessary to become involved in." He says, finally beginning to disappear, but Chara walks forward, stumbling from her wounds, but insisting that she does this alone.
"Gaster..."
"Chara..."
"I'm sorry... for everything I did... back then..." She says, never breaking her eye contact with him. At first he looks surprised, then he simple chuckles.
"Ha... I see. I forgive you. For the things you've done, and the things you were forced to do..." He says, finally vanishing.
They continue their walk with the various march of monsters at their side, before reaching the point where New Home opens up. In the large courtyard, Chara and Frisk simply look at their friends on the other side.
Toriel... Papyrus... Asgore... Sans... Gaster... Undyne... All standing there, smiling at them. Chara and Frisk look at each other.
"Think it's time we go home?" Frisk asks, but Chara frowns.
"But without Asriel..." She says, a tear still in her eye.
However, as they say that, something unexpected happens. The familiar Worldsoul rumbling occurs when the Unseen Influence changes the nature of the world!
"N-NO! NOT AGAIN!" Chara yells out as a thunderbolt lands in the center of the room, blinding everyone and forcing them to look away!
However, as Chara looks over, her eyes go wide.
"No... way... is that... A-Asriel...?" Chara says, shakily walking forward, falling down a few times from her injuries, but crawls to Asriel as everyone stands in shock, Chara and Asriel now in the center of the room.
Asriel opens his eyes and blinks.
"Chara...? Is... that you...? Where am I? What happened?! WHERE'S FRISK?!" He yells out, being hugged by Chara, his worries melting into nothing. He looks over to see Frisk walking up and picking up something from next to them.
"What's that?" Asriel lets out. Chara looks over at something in Frisk's hands.
"A note." Frisk begins to read it.
-Hey.
-Look. There's no easy way to say this.
-You guys were... sort of my tools for amusement for a while... but after what Asriel did... and the things Chara said... well...
-It didn't seem right to try to extend what I've done... so... I'm doing two things for you guys...
-The first... well, I already have these crazy powers, right? I'm bringing back Asriel...
-In a way... that's all I ever wanted to. When I think back on it, Asriel was the beginning for me.
-Someone who was denied a happy ending, that's why I changed the nature of the world.
-I didn't want it to end up like this... but it was too fun, I didn't want to let go.
-Yet... Chara was right. This isn't my world... it's yours... so I'm doing something else too.
-I saw a few funny little lines of text when everything finally ended, left by Gaster I'm sure.
-Something about a... third party streamer? Look, I'm not sure if it'll work... but I guess I owe you guys.
-I've hooked this version of the game- uh, world... up to a streaming website. It will run... forever.
-I hope you guys are happy.
-PS: I brought all the people back from Waterfall too, but for some reason I couldn't bring back Roman. Sorry.
-PPS: Alphys should be in her lab somewhere.
Asriel, Chara, and Frisk all stand with blank expressions on their face. Before long, however, Toriel and Asgore run in and pick them all up off their feet!
"ASRIEL, CHARA, FRISK! YOU'RE ALL OKAY! OH MY GOD I WAS SO WORRIED!" Toriel yelps out with tears on her smiling face!
"I knew you had it in you... you are, and always will be... our future." Asgore says with a smile.
With that, the Underground was finally set straight. Everyone, no matter who... was reminded of the things that occured not just now, but also in the future. A better future was handed to them by the one who made it possible, but almost took it away. At some weird parting between what makes someone a god, and what makes someone a spoiled child, this Unseen Influence couldn't let go.
They sought to create a happy world for Frisk, Chara, and Asriel all within the confines of their mind. They were unsatisfied that a happy ending didn't exist for all of them, and so they changed the nature of the world. When Frisk, working off of the resonant memories of the Unseen Influence finally accomplish his goals, the Unseen Influence thought it would be their right to retake control... not knowing the true nature of Chara's convictions, they finally saw the error of their ways.
In the end, the Unseen Influence could have continued to fight, but after a while, they finally realized that it wasn't worth it. It may be a game, but sometimes it's not worth playing if it comes at the cost of happiness.
Years will pass. Babies will be born. Romances and friendships will blossom, and the Underground will stay healthy. The barrier will fall, and Monsters will peacefully rise to the surface with not just one, but two incredibly powerful and determined human allies. The humans who fell down in the past will eventually fall down again against their own accord, but they will not be killed. Instead, they will be led to the surface by the newly formed Royal Guard, dedicating to protecting the humans and monsters of the Underground.
Before long, years more will pass, and Frisk will meet up with the six fallen Children. Frisk will of course be an adult by then, but when they all meet, it will be as equals. They will all remember exactly what occurred down in the Underground. The Worldsoul will continue to beat, slightly cracked, but still stable, the game never shutting off, the story never being untold.
Asriel, Chara, and Frisk... with help from Papyrus, Sans, Toriel, Asgore, and Undyne, look towards the new horizon. The rising sun not just for humans, but for monsters too.
What happens next... is history.
Author's Note: I'm rehosting the Unseen Influence Trilogy on account of my patron vanishing. This story will be deleted if he ever returns. Until then, enjoy yourself.
